Woody Hayes takes on Michigan.
Colorado beats Missouri on a 5th down due to referee incompetence and completes the year winning a national championship: 1990
Kirby Smart calls a fake punt at midfield on a 4th and 11 deep into 4th qtr against 'Bama with a BCS playoff bid on the line: 2018
Stanford Band: 1982
Woody Hayes punches himself out of football: 1978
Miss State coach Jackie Sherrill has a bull castrated in front of his team: 1992
Raghib "Rocket" Ishmael appears to return a punt 80 yards for a game winning return against Colorado 1991 Orange Bowl. Colorado decided to kick a punt up 10 - 9 late in 4th qtr with a national championship on the line to Rocket Ismail; dumb move. Ismail return the punt for what appears to be a TD. The refs call a clipping penalty against ND. Domer fans claim there was no illegal block to this day.
This would be my number 1: Referees throw an unsportsmanlike penalty against the Sooner Schooner Orange Bowl 1985. I watched this game between OU and the UW Huskies. OU kicks a field goal early into the 2nd half to go up 3 against the Huskies. The Sooner Schooner goes out onto the field BUT...the referees disallow the field goal on an illegal procedure penalty. The Schooner gets stuck in the mud in front of the Huskies bench. I remember Huskie players cursing at and kicking at the Schooner. The refs throw an unsportsmanlike penalty against the Schooner. The OU kicker missed the longer kick and the Huskies dominate the rest of the game.
NCAA football can exist for another 10,000 years, and we'll never see something like that again.
1983 Egg Bowl. Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State. Mississippi State lines up for what would be a short, 26 yard, game-winning field goal with 24 seconds left. A huge gust of wind shows up as the football reaches the goal posts and blows it back out onto the field.
My buddy Danny and I were ushering at a home football game.
We were at the section of the stadium reserved for fans of the opposing team.
The game was just about to start. It was a warm day and I had bought a big Coke.
Danny and I were right up front and I was checking out the cheerleaders.
One of the cheerleaders, the prettiest one, called all the other cheerleaders over and then started giggling while pointing at me.
Well, I was no stranger to the intricacies of romance.
I knew this meant she thought I was hot.
“Hey Danny”, I said. “Look at that cheerleader. I think she likes me. See how she’s pointing at me?”
“Maybe she’s pointing at you because your fly is wide open” replied Danny.
I looked down.
He was right.
Wide open.
There’s a lesson in there about centrifugal force and fluid dynamics, but I don’t have a chalkboard, so let’s just leave it at the fact that I spun around and all the Coke came flying out of the cup and over the first few rows of fans for the opposing team.
You know how mad hornets get when you hit their nest with a rock? These fans made those hornets look like greeters at church.
They were furious.
I lit out of there like a bottle rocket.
Unfortunately, they lit out like faster bottle rockets.
They caught me in front of their marching band.
They had the drum section play the drum solo from Radar Love on my head.
They then bought every cup of Coke from one of the concession guys and doused me with that sweet, sticky liquid.
Funny how fate can turn things around.
I’d like to tell you that that pretty cheerleader took pity on me and we are now happily married.
I’d like to tell you that, but it’s not true.
She came up with some kind of mean cheer about a loser getting a Coke shower.
Great times......great times.....
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Don’t remember exactly when, in 80’s I think, last game of the year for UCF, the senior punter takes the snap, turns to face the sidelines, and punts the ball straight out of bounds.
He did it just to be funny.
That would have been my #1 also.
Prob not top 10, but the recent seven overtimes A&M v LSU was wacky
“On January 1, 1929, the Golden Bears faced the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, USA. Midway through the second quarter, Riegels, who played center on both offensive and defensive lines and who was then playing in a role similar to that of the modern defensive nose guard or nose tackle, picked up a fumble by Tech’s Jack “Stumpy” Thomason. Just 30 yards away from the Yellow Jackets’ end zone, Riegels was somehow turned around and ran 69 yards in the wrong direction.”
Georgia Tech won the game 8 to 7 the 2 point safety being the difference.
Woody Hayes takes on Michigan.